Описание: From reviews of the first edition: "Here's a gem of a book...all peppered with delightful notes from science fiction films, novels, and comics. I can't turn a page without finding a jewel." Clifford Stoll, University of California, Berkeley (author of "The Cuckoo's Egg")From the Foreword by Kip Thorne (author of "Black Holes and Time Warps"):"In browsing this revised edition, I have been struck by the richness and complexity of the tapestry of ideas that Nahin presents. His interweaving of physics and fiction is done adeptly and keeps the book flowing.... Like a good journalist, Nahin simply reports what he sees in the physics and science fiction literature, commenting lucidly and often pointedly on the interconnections, contradictions, and controversies, but leaving it to his readers to form their own final judgments.... Nahin's book, with its complex tapestry of ideas and possibilities, may well remain the most readable and complete treatise on time travel in science and science fiction." Time Machines explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This fascinating and very accessible book covers a variety of topics including the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, space-time, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more. The new edition is substantially enlarged and updated throughout.
Автор: Emenyonu Ernest N. Название: Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ISBN: 1847011624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847011626 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural existence.
Автор: Neil Roberts and Anne Norton Название: A political companion to Frederick Douglass / ISBN: 0813175623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813175621 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 8910.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The contributors explore Douglass`s understanding of the self-made American.
Автор: Taylor Audrey Isabel Название: Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building ISBN: 1476665168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476665160 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration and study. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip`s lyrical other-worlds analyses her characters, environments and legends and their interplay with genre expectations.
Описание: The essays in this volume provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siecle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.
Автор: Furniss, Tom Название: Following the footsteps of deep tim ISBN: 1474410014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474410014 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Discovering the Footsteps of Time` probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century.
Автор: Ronald Schleifer Название: A Political Economy of Modernism ISBN: 1108472958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108472951 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the complex unity of modernist culture by focusing on literature and the arts; intellectual disciplines of post-classical economics; and institutional structures of corporate capitalism and the lower middle-class. This book is for graduates, scholars, and researchers working in Modernism.
Автор: Morris Marcia A. Название: Writing the Time of Troubles: False Dmitry in Russian Literature ISBN: 1618118633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618118639 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13028.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Traces the proliferation of fictional representations of Tsar Dmitry in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia, showing how playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his brief and equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating the social anxieties of their own times.
Автор: Phillippy Patricia Название: A History of Early Modern Women`s Writing ISBN: 1107137063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107137066 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 20275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women`s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.
Описание: In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent late?-twentieth-?century intellectual traditions had already been articulated in modernist fiction before 1945. Offering a bold new genealogy for literary modernism, Meehan finds versions of a postmodern subject embodied in works by authors who intently undermine attempts to stabilize conceptions of identity and who draw attention to the role of language in shaping conceptions of the self. Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology, spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of works published between 1904 and 1941, beginning with Joseph Conrad's prescient portrait of the subject interpolated by ideology and culminating with Samuel Beckett's categorical disavowal of the subjective ""I."" Additional close readings of novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Nathanael West, and Virginia Woolf establish that modernist texts conceptualize subjectivity as an ideological and linguistic construction that reverberates across understandings of consciousness, race, place, and identity. By reconsidering the movement's function and scope, Modernism and Subjectivity charts how profoundly modernist literature shaped the intellectual climate of the twentieth century.
Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction ISBN: 1472527747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472527745 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.
Автор: Sharp Patrick B Название: Darwinian Feminism and Early Science Fiction ISBN: 1786832291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786832290 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction reveals a lost history of women`s science fiction and shows how it was shaped by the work of Britain`s greatest scientist.
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